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J. HAPPER an J. A. HENDBRS0N- GIGAR MAKING MACHINE,

No. 65,805. PatentedJune l, 1867.

wrapper or thepacking-tube, and this process is repeated until the wrappe i strut JOHN HAFER AND JAMES A. HENDERSON, OF BEDFORD, PENNSYLVANIA. Leim Parma No. 65,805, dated .nog 1s, 1867.

G IGARLMAKING MACHINE.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONICERN:

lie it known that we, JOHN HAFER and JAMES A. HENDERSON, both of Bedford, in the county of Bedford, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Cigar-Making Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had'to the accompanying drawings, which malte part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a plan or top view 'of a machine embracing our improvements.

Figure 2 is a view in elevation of one end of the same; and Y Figure 3, a vertieal'seetion throughfthe same at the line :raf of iig. l.'

It is the object of our invention automatically to fill a properly-prepared wrapper with {ine-cut or ground tobacco.

To carry out our invention we construct a stout frame or bench, A, of suitable form, and mount thereinel hopper, B, having a filling-tube or feed pipe, b, at its bottom. A packing-tube, C, fits over the feed pipe, and is suspended by rods C and a cross-head, c', from a vertically reciprocating plunger or packer, D, working in n. guide, d, in the hopper,..and jointed at its upper end to a. pitman, c, worked by a crank, c', on a horizontal shaft, E, mounted in suitable bearings on the frame, and driven by a spur-pinion, I", on one end, which meshes into a spur-wheel, G, driven 'by a erank,g, or in some other well-known way.

The operation of the machine is las follows:4 The hopper is lled with iine-cut tobacco, and a wrapper or casing of tobacco, or paper closed at one end, slipp.ed over the tube C. The shaftE is rotated through its lgearing, which rotation iinparts a vertical reeiprocation to the packing-tube C and plunger. Itwill be observed that lthe plunger and lower tube are connected by the parallel rods cwhich pass through openings in the hopper, und that while, in theirreciprocations, constantly varying their relations to the hooper-tube b, they always maintain the same relation to each other. When the\crank c is raised, and the plunger makes its down stroke, the tobacco below it is pushed into the packing-tube C, which is likewise descending at the same time, and thus draws away from the feed pipe b the `tobacco which has passed through it. The ratchet-teeth on the plunger assist the packing'. On the upward stroke of the plunger and packing-tube C, the non' expanded tobacco contained in it is pressed up against the mouth of the feed pipe b, which thus acts as a pist-on to force it into the r is filled, when it is Vremoved and `replaced. by another.

Our invention thus enables us smoothly and rapidly to fill the '.Lhe'wrappers may -be made in any of` the usual well-known ways.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The packing-tube, C, arranged and operating as described.

2. The combination, as described, of va fixed hopper-tube or feed pipe with a reciprocating packing-tube, for the purpose set forth. 3. The combination, substantially as described, of a fixed hopper-tube or feed pipe with a plunger reciproeating in'side and a packing-tube reciprocating outside the feed pipe, for the purpose of lling a. wrapper with fine-cut tobacco.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto subscribed e'ur names.

wrappiugs of cigarettes with tine-cut tobacco.

JOHN HAFER, JAMES A. HENDERSON.

Witnesses:

A. J. Simson, JOHN C. Krenn. 

